Introduction Acknowledgments Part I. Niemeyer, the Man 1. From Europe, With Love 2. Letters 3. What, to a Christian, is the Meaning of a "Changing, Technologically Oriented, Frustrated, and Fragmented World"? 4. The Hospice Movement and the Problem of Death (excerpts) 5. How to Talk to Mature People About Death Part II. The Loss of Truth 6.
This Terrible Century 7. Forces that Shape the Twentieth Century 8. Loss of Reality: Gnosticism and Modern Nihilism 9. Variations on a Theme 10. Ideologies, Political Theories, and Societies 11. The Communist Mind (excerpts) 12. Will the Soviet Reality Please Stand Up? (excerpt) 13. The Tourist's Soviet Russia 14.
Ethics and Politics in Communism (excerpts) 15. The "Autonomous" Man 16. Confrontation of Opinions or Dialectic Discussion? 17. E Nobilissima Visione Regna Inferna 18. Beyond "Democratic Disorder" 19. Two Socialisms 20. Anti-Communism Old Hat? 21. Common Sense 22.
Counterculture? 23. Moral Dishonesty? 24. Rulers Without Power 25. See No Evil 26. The Reality of Totalitarian Despotism 27. What Happened to Morality? 28. Language and Action 29. Modern Politics 30.
Of Human Dignity 31. States Without Citizens 32. The State and the Citizen 33. The Evil Society 34. Aliens In Their Own Nations 35. Toward Totalitarian Simplicity? 36. Public Interest and Private Utility 37. Structures, Revolutions and Christianity 38.
Systems of History and Public Policy Goals (excerpts) 39. The Church and the Ideological Temptation 40. A "Church" Without a Name? (excerpts) 41. Beyond Institutions of Power and Patterns of Profit (excerpts) 42. On Authority and Alienation: A Meditation Part III. The Recovery of Truth Political Theory 43. A Reappraisal of the Doctrine of Free Speech 44. Stewardship--Theory and Practice 45.
What Price Politics? 46. Humanism, Positivism, Immorality 47. What Price "Natural Law"? 48. The Loss and Recovery of History 49. Foreign Policy and Morality: A Contemporary Perspective (excerpts) 50. Risk or Betrayal? The Crossroads of Western Policy 51. National Self-Defense and Political Existence 52. Nations, Myths, and Mores 53.
Ideas Have Also Roots 54. Limits of the Law Education 55. The Commitments of Political Education 56. Crisis and Renewal 57. The New Need for the Catholic University 58. Christian Studies and the Liberal Arts College 59. Letter to Rev. James T.
Burtchaell, C.S.C. 60. The Glory and Misery of Education Conservatism 61. Russell Kirk and Ideology (excerpts) 62. The Prophetic Calling of Solzhenitsyn 63. Conservatism and the Modern Age 64.
Conservatism and the New Political Theory 65. The Burkean View of Politics 66. Review of Conservatism in America by Clinton Rossiter 67. Is There a Conservative Mission? 68. Too Early and Too Much Faith 69. Two Commencement Addresses 70. The Recovery of "The Sacred"? 71. The Church, the Shepherds, and the Spirit of Our Time 72.
Christianity in Public Life: Real vs. Counterfeit Hope 73. The Politics of Hope 74. Guilt and History 75. Reason and Faith: The Fallacious Antithesis 76. History and Civilization Endnotes Publications by Gerhart Niemeyer Index.